Thirty One Killed, Seven Injured in Restaurant Explosion, Yinchuan, China

At approximately 1336 EST, reports began to emerge from eyewitnesses that an explosion rocked a restaurant in the Xingqing district of Yinchuan, Ningxia, China. Social media reports of the incident were quickly clamped down and no other reports emerged until Chinese state-owned media picked up the story at 1920 EST. They reported that thirty eight had been rescued after a gas leak after the: